Well, hello there! If you’ve been a member for a while, you may have wondered what happened to our December read. The book club management team experienced a series of unfortunate events. But we survived! However, the biggest impact was on my end as I’m the only person who’s currently updating our web site. But we’re getting back on track voting on books from Pakistan we previously received & squeezing them into a last-minute vote. We randomly chose 3 books club members sent in as Julie was kind enough to allow an extra book to be included in lieu of her suggestion.
Before we get to the vote, I wanted to entice you back into Pakistan with this wonderful cookbook below. If you picked up the last memoir-based cookbook I recommended for Pakistan, the author will very be familiar to you.
In this eagerly awaited follow up to Pakistani cookbook Summers Under the Tamarind Tree (view on Amazon), food writer and cookery teacher Sumayya Usmani continues her journey of discovery through the exotic cuisine of her native Pakistan. Mountain Berries and Desert Spice introduces home cooks to Pakistani desserts and explores their unique significance in the country’s culture and traditions. The 70 authentic and family recipes travel from the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains in the north (where berries and fruits grow in abundance), via the fertile Punjab (with its rice- and grain-based desserts) to the Arabian sea in the south, where saffron- and cardamom-laced sweet recipes are a favourite. From the sweet snacks shared between friends over coffee to sumptuous desserts fit for lavish weddings, Sumayya tempts the reader with beautiful, easily achieved recipes that anyone can savour.
Yum!
THE VOTING
You can vote from now until Fri.., Dec. 31 at 11:30PM on which book you’d like the club to read next. (That's NYC time. See this converted to your local time below.)
To participate:
2. Then, click here to vote.
We'll publish the anonymous results afterwards so you can get the book to read in January.